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Brigham Young, The Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
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Vol. 12 in the Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press,
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"Currently available evidence does not allow us to know just when or understand how much general church leaders knew about responsibility for the massacre before 1870, when they clearly knew nearly everything. It seems apparent, however, that they gained complete knowledge over a rather lengthy time. From Jacob Hamblin's and George A. Smith's 1858 reports, they knew that John D. Lee and other militiamen participated in some way; perhaps they believed the militiamen had led the massacre. With this knowledge in 1859 Young and his associates, William H. Hooper and Territorial Marshal John Kay, offered assistance to the federal attorney, marshal, and judges. The marshal and judge rejected that assistance. Young continued to renew that offer during the 1860s and early 1870s, and the federal officials continued to ignore it. By 1863, Young apparently learned more, and he distanced himself from Lee. Between 1863 and 1870, however, he seems to have mellowed toward Lee. By 1870, the investigation by Erastus Snow and Lorenzo Roundy had revealed the culpability of both Lee and Haight. It seems probable, though, that it was not until Young's 1870 conversation with Nephi Johnson that he understood that the local leaders had lied to some men in the community by telling them they were going to bury the victims of an Indian massacre. It is also not clear that the general authorities understood the large number of men involved in the massacre. They may have taken some time to learn that the leaders had forced the euro-American men under military and local church discipline to murder innocent people." [From author's conclusion]
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